A four-letter word — book — is hitting the headlines again as politicians in Maharashtra come together to trash James W. Laines work on Shivaji. But Smitha Verma and Sonia Sarkar argue that banning books — the States favourite pastime — is a weapon thats losing its edge

The poor man didnt know what hit him. Indias best loved sardarji was on a visit to Calcutta when he made some candid remarks about Bengals best loved poet Rabindranath Tagore, turning his nose up a bit at his poetry. The city... |
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